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Well, vacation is over. Back at my computer w/ wifi access. It was hard posting on the road with my smartyphone and Verizon. The I-5 corridor was a bit spotty with coverage and some of the RV parks we stayed at advertised wifi, but was even more spotty.

The Dark is Rising...

...but only for a few more days. The celestial clock is about to chime. Thursday is our winter solstice, the longest night of the year. Afterward day length will slowly grow until June 20th and the summer solstice. I loved the series "The Dark is Rising" filled with Welsh mythology, but it is fiction. The dark ages today are real as we experience the slow death of US empire. I thought it might be timely to look at some of the steps that have led to creation and now dissolution of US empire. I'll be interested in your thoughts as well...

Afternoon folks!

Starting off this week we've got blues albums from Chicago harmonica player Carey Bell and his son Lurrie on guitar and Texas guitarist Clarence Gatemouth Brown. Following that we've got a mess of blues rock with albums from Washington DC band The Nighthawks, Roy Buchanan, Johnny Winter, Robin Trower and Brownsville Station. In the diversity department we've got albums from 80's rock band The Swimming Pool Q's and by Buffalo Springfield.

Enjoy and have a great weekend!

“Learn the rules like a pro, so you can break them like an artist.”
Pablo Picasso

The United Nations Cop28 climate summit wrapped up this week. The best language the participants could agree upon was to transition away from fossil fuels. Did not see any call to decrease military activity contributing to climate change.

New studies keep identifying additional methods we may effect the climate.

Happy Friday everyone. I hope everybody is doing well. Post any photos, memes, or music you like.

Another week of nice weather with sunny blue skies and day time temps in the low to mid 70s. It has been getting cold at night though. The last few mornings it's been in the mid 30s. Gotta enjoy the nice weather while it lasts. There's rain in the forecast for most of next week.

All these shapes and patterns except the high voltage tower were taken yesterday morning in Old Town San Diego.

The history of mankind is basically a timeline of war, from the first empires to the present. Many great civilizations, cultures, histories and knowledge down through the centuries have been lost to war. There are many examples of the victors erasing a peoples existence and replacing it with their concept of national identity. For example, The Old Testament is full of war, genocide and slaughter. History books are chronicles of war with intermittent smatterings of peace and prosperity. How much knowledge has been lost to the scourge of war? We will never know what the world has missed or how different it may have been because of the antiquities that were conquered and lost forever.

If the victor rewrites history in its favor, how can we trust anything that has been handed down to us, considering the possibility that the other side of the story may have been lost or altered for all of posterity? How much knowledge has been lost due to war, and the rewriting of history. The Library of Alexandria is just one example of ancient histories and knowledge lost to conflict. What knowledge and wisdom was lost forever in that fire of conflict? We'll never know.